The town shares its northwestern border with the state of Rajasthan and is the administrative headquarters of Neemuch District.

[2] The Cant area of Neemuch was a planned town constructed by the British as a local military headquarters for the region.

The Neemuch cantonment played a significant role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and was the centre of disturbances in Malwa.

After the end of rebellion and transfer of power directly to the British crown in the Raj, Neemuch has always climbed the stairs of progress and success.

[3] A brigade of native Bengal troops were stationed at Neemuch, then mutinied and marched Delhi.

Since 1895, Neemuch had been the headquarters of the political agent in Malwa,[3] a subdivision of the British Central India Agency.

Neemuch District has fourth lowest rural growth rate of 11% in Madhya Pradesh, while state average is 18.4%, highest being 31.7% of Jhabua.Neemuch district comes under the agro-climatic zone Malwa Plateau, lies between the parallels of latitude 24°15’ – 24°35’ north, and between the meridians of longitude 74°45’ - 75°37’ east spread over an area of 3,875 square kilometres.

[21] Neemuch was the birthplace of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in 1939 and is home to a large scale army recruitment centre for the organisation.

The CRPF still maintains part of Neemuch's British Military Cantonment, which was the first of its kind in India.

Many types of cereals, pulses, spices, oil seeds and herbs are traded in the agriculture market of Neemuch.

[citation needed] Major exportable items are[24] isabgol, ashwagandha and many kind of herbs, methi, ajwain, coriander, soybean products like oil, de-oiled cake, soybean, paneer (cheese), soya papar, soy milk, garlic powder, onion powder, dehydrated flakes of onion and garlic, red chili powder, leather garments, and[artificial jewelry.

It is a 151 megawatt photo-voltaic power station constructed at a cost of 1,100 crore rupees (about $182,000,000) on 305 hectares (750 acres) of land operating since February 2014 at Neemuch.

Report of Solar Radiation Resource Assessment (SRRA) Station at Neemuch can be found online.

An ophthalmic centre that under the leadership of G.D. Agrawal and the help of Ramji Lal Goyal, Gomabai Netralaya was established at Neemuch in 1992.

Gomabai Netralaya has played a key role in achieving the highest per capita rate of eye donation in India for Neemuch and the facilities provided by the institute for performing penetrating keratoplasty, can provide a complete solution to the problem of corneal blindness in the region.

Gomabai Netralaya is also involved in a continuous process of educating staff and conducting research into the cause and cure of blinding eye diseases.

Sukhanandji Ashram or Sukhanand Dham is situated at a distance of about 32 km from Nimach on the border of Rajasthan in an ancient rock cave.

It also believed that Vedavyasa first wrote Bharata-Samhita which contained twenty-four thousand verses (slokas) and taught that to his son Śuka.

[30] There are two annual fairs organized at this place: one on Haryali amavashya of Srawan month and other on Baisakh purnima.

There are 30 parks and gardens, one Dussehra Maidan, 22 auditoriums and four public libraries exist in the city.

In October 2024, a Government Medical College was inaugurated in Neemuch by the incumbent chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Dr. Mohan Yadav built by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, for the people of Neemuch District to improve the health infrastructure of the city.

It is named after Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha, the former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh hailing from Neemuch district.

Despite being a small town, Neemuch has produced a number of players who have played in the Indian soccer league.

Neemuch's Olympic size swimming pool, known as Padm Taran Pushkar, was inaugurated in 1978.

[35] Neemuch is an important broad gauge railway station of Ajmer — Ratlam route.

It has direct links to Ratlam, Ujjain via Nagda and Kota and Bundi in Rajasthan via Chittorgarh.

[39] It is a low-power transmitter relay of 100 W. Apart from major newspaper publishing houses, various regional publishers are also dominant in the city, namely "Hindi Khabarwaala Web & App News (हिंदी ख़बरवाला वेब न्यूज़ चैनल", "Voice of MP Android News App" Neemcuch Mandi Bhav Website "mkisan"[40] "Nai Vidha" Dashpur Express, Malwa Today, Malwa Darshan, and Neemuch Patrika.

[41] Dominant state newspaper publishing houses are Nai duniya[42][43] Dainik Bhaskar,[44] Raj Express[45][46] and Hindi Gyani.